Category Manager

Sea Sourcing Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sea Sourcing Pte Ltd in Singapore seeks a seasoned procurement professional to own strategic categories and drive long-term cost optimization across the organisation.

You will develop category strategies, manage supplier relationships, lead complex sourcing, monitor contracts, and ensure ESG and safety compliance.

Strong analytical ability, stakeholder management, and MS Office proficiency are essential in this fast-paced maritime procurement environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ experience in a procurement function, preferably in Category Management or Strategic Sourcing.
• Experience in the maritime industry would be advantageous.
• Formal education in Business, Economics, Finance, Logistics, or a related field.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills.

Responsibilities

• Owns one or more procurement categories and develops long-term strategies.
• Monitors contract performance and maintains supplier relationships.
• Leads complex sourcing events and negotiations with vendors.
• Maintains reporting tools for spend, savings, and supplier performance.
• Collaborates with Supply Chain to align global supply planning.
• Works with internal stakeholders to meet requirements and improve processes.
• Ensures compliance with health, safety, ESG policies.

Skills

Procurement

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

Education

Bachelor's degree

Supply Chain / Procurement related field

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

• Strategic Perspective: Owns one or more procurement categories; develops and executes long-term category strategies in support of the department and company strategies. Accounts for market situation, market development and internal customer requirements. Prioritizes projects and operational support objectively based on understanding of relative urgency and impact.
• Supplier Management: Monitors contract performance while developing and driving structured supplier relationships. Develops reporting methods and tools to track and benchmark purchase, savings and identify additional areas of opportunity. Establishes and manages favourable vendor relationships to ensure competitive pricing and effective service levels; addresses performance issues related to the vendors and act as the main point of contact for general / performance-related communications with the vendors.
• Sourcing: Independently leads complex sourcing or cost optimization projects through the strategic sourcing and project management processes. This includes demand mapping, creation of complex sourcing events, creation of advanced total cost analyses, negotiations and contracting. He/She interprets data, collaborates with internal stakeholders, leads negotiations with vendors, makes fact-based recommendations, and ensures thorough implementation of new contracts for use by Purchasers of the Sea Sourcing partners.
• Maintenance & Development of Systems: Adheres to required workflows, maintains internal tools for contract and vendor management, purchasing support etc. Develops and/or improves reporting tools and dashboards related to spend management, vendor performance, contract compliance or other matters, in the pursuit of greater efficiency and scalability.
• Supply Management: Collaborates with Supply Chain and Operations to establish cohesive supply planning and distribution strategies globally. Proactively identifies areas of supply risk (demand, supply, environmental and business continuity) and work with stakeholders to develop and implement risk management strategies.
• Teamwork: Performs well in a complex organization where agility is required to serve all stakeholders in line with their requirements and expectations. Ensures procurement of goods and services match the quality required by the respective Sea Sourcing partners’ operations and technical functions. Stays generally aware of major development in other categories and involves himself/herself in the work of colleagues by offering support, guidance, and constructive feedback when relevant. Pro-actively shares best practice.
• Internal Compliance: Is familiar with the Health, Safety, Environmental Protection and Quality Policies and understands the responsibilities and requirements included in Sea Sourcing partners’ policies including their ESG programs. They understand their duty to report any environmental noncompliance via the Sea Sourcing partners open reporting system as per relevant guidelines

Requirements

• Minimum five years’ experience in a Procurement function, preferably in Category Management and/or Strategic Sourcing roles.
• Experience in the maritime industry would be an advantage.
• Formal education in Business, Economics, Finance, Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Strong stakeholder management, relationship-building and business partnering skills, with the ability to establish credibility and influence stakeholders where required.
• Sound judgement and accountability to take ownership of assigned categories and projects, with the confidence to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to understand market dynamics within the procurement category, build effective networks, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, resolve multi-party issues, and work towards practical, business-aligned solutions.
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and numerical skills, with good attention to accuracy and detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.

Sea Sourcing is the marine procurement joint venture company of Anglo-Eastern and Seaspan, two of the world's leading ship management/ownership companies, with more than 900 vessels between them.

By leveraging the bulk purchasing power of Anglo-Eastern and Seaspan's extensive fleets and decades of experience in managing, operating and supplying vessels, we are able to offer the benefits that come with economies of scale as well as access to a global network of trusted, proven suppliers. The close relationships we have with our suppliers are in many cases based on years of high volume, repeat business that affords us preferential terms and pricing we can pass on.

Together with our strong quality control and customer focus, member companies of Sea Sourcing are ensured a value-added marine procurement solution second to none.